Xiao Ran led a small fleet of ten warships toward Laguna Planet, a world almost entirely surrounded by ocean and unusual coral. Meanwhile, on El Sahal Star, Kane and a group of subordinates quietly landed unnoticed on the largely desert-covered planet.
Kane had received Xiao Ran's request to capture a Berserk Syndrome patient and bring them back to the Fleet Territory. This trip out from the fleet was both a mission and a journey separate from the main force. Their ship for the mission was a new Small MACROSS-class Battleship, carrying a squad of Berserk Team units, around twenty Unmanned Variable Fighters, several Revolutionary Machines, a B-class MS squad, and a Variable Fighter squad.
The original Small MACROSS-class Battleship had already received an updated version within the Burning Legion, upgraded from an X-shaped or H-shaped design into a box-shaped one. This gave it more and larger storage space, allowing it to carry more troops without affecting its transformation. With Super AI support as well, it could be considered a giant Super AI Combat Robot.
El Sahal Star was likewise a planet already occupied by humanity. However, due to its environment, it did not have many cities, and the area humans truly occupied and utilized was not particularly large. Its busiest place was merely one large city. More often, the planet served as a transit point for entering and leaving the Brishigaman Cluster, barely qualifying as a logistics planet. Yet as the logistics center of a star cluster, it possessed a unique desert ecosystem, so it was not truly desolate, and its cities were quite lively.
Kane's arrival on this planet had not been a blind or random choice. After analyzing information related to Berserk Syndrome, Kane discovered that Valkyrie seemed to have a special method of detecting where Berserk Syndrome